Chernobyl

Russian troops have left the nuclear facility, Ukraine's state nuclear company says, after weeks-long occupation.

There was no immediate comment from the Russian authorities, who have denied that its forces have put nuclear facilities in Ukraine at risk. A new round of talks aimed at stopping the fighting was scheduled for Friday. Energoatom said Russian soldiers got “significant doses” of radiation from digging trenches at the highly contaminated site. “The information is confirmed that the occupiers, who seized the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and other facilities in the exclusion zone, have set off in two columns towards the Ukrainian border with the Republic of Belarus,” it said in a statement. The UN nuclear watchdog, IAEA, also confirmed that it had been informed by Ukraine that Russian forces handed control of the power plant and “moved convoys of troops”. All the Russian troops that occupied the Chernobyl nuclear power station have now left the site, officials in Kyiv said, as heavy fighting continues to rage on the outskirts of the Ukrainian capital and other fronts.

LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian troops were leaving the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and heading towards Ukraine's border with Belarus, the Ukrainian nuclear ...

The claim couldn't be independently verified. Energoatom said the Russians have signed a document confirming the handover of the Chernobyl plant and stating that the plant’s administration doesn’t have any complaints about the Russian troops who were “guarding” the facility. Energoatom also said reports were confirmed that the Russians dug trenches in the Red Forest, the 10-square-kilometer (nearly four-square-mile) area surrounding the Chernobyl plant within the Exclusion Zone, and received “significant doses of radiation.”

LVIV, Ukraine (Reuters) - Ukraine's state nuclear company Energoatom on Thursday said many of the Russian forces occupying the Chernobyl nuclear plant...

Energoatom said Russians troops have signed a document confirming the plant's handover back to Ukrainian control.

- Russian troops surrounding the city of Slavutych, where many of the power plant's workers live, perAP, are also preparing to leave and head toward Belarus, the nuclear operator said. - Russian troops "marched in two columns towards the Ukrainian border with the Republic of Belarus," the post read. The big picture: Energoatom said Russian troops are leaving the Chernobyl plant and other facilities in the Exclusion Zone — the Chernobyl plant's surrounding lands that have high levels of radiation — and only a "small number" of Russians remain at the station.

Unprotected Russian troops dug trenches in the so-called Red Forest — the most radioactively contaminated part of the zone around Chernobyl.

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